Chapter 702 Stalin Died of Illness

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If this steely leader who has led the Soviet Union for thirty years just lets go.

Who will the future of the Soviet Union lie in? Almost everyone thinks that person should be themselves.

But almost everyone was thinking of another person present, Beria, who looked gentle and elegant with glasses.

The Minister of the Interior, who has been in charge of the Ministry of the Interior for fourteen years, is undoubtedly the person with the greatest threat among everyone present. Everyone understands how terrifying Beria is under his gentle appearance.

If nothing else, the current commander of the Moscow Military District, General Pavel Artemyevich Artemyev.

It was Beria who carried General Artemyev, who graduated from the Border Guards School, a school established by Cheka founder Dzerzhinsky to train commanders of the internal defense forces.

After the Civil War against the White Army, General Artemyev engaged in political work in the interior and border guards. Later, he successively served as the chief of security in the border area, the head of the internal security force, and the principal of the NKVD troop school.

During World War II, he served as head of the combat troops command department of the NKVD. In the same year, he was appointed commander of the Moscow Military District, where he remains today.

But who is the boss of the Ministry of Internal Affairs? Of course, it was Beria, the only marshal in the Soviet Union who was a security cadre.

The commander of the Moscow Military District, who controls the notorious Ministry of Internal Affairs, is a commander who came from the Ministry of Internal Affairs system. This kind of threat has to make everyone feel worried.

The rescue operations in the villa are still going on. No one knows what the final result will be, but everyone knows it. If this kind father of all nations suddenly leaves, then a battle will begin immediately.

For a whole day, no news came. For the people here, everyone has already made a basic judgment in their hearts, and some preparations should start. The struggle for power after Stalin's death has begun now.

Everyone was anxious. When the doctors on the medical team examined Stalin's body, they found that his condition was already quite bad. The most anxious ones were Stalin's colleagues. They just wanted to know whether Stalin could recover, because no one had the guts to act rashly when Stalin might suddenly wake up.

Even Beria, who is in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and is assisted by the commander of the Moscow Military District, has no intention of seizing power. Stalin led the Soviet Union for thirty years. Apart from some political opponents in the early years,

For a long time, it was like a ballast stone, and all the important people present had already bowed to this authority.

On March 3, a team of doctors told these leaders that it was unlikely that Stalin would wake up. After this conclusion was reached, the people who had been patient for two days finally seemed to be relieved of their imprisonment and started gearing up.

Beria also started his own actions. Beria directly found Malenkov and expressed his willingness to support Malenkov. Of course, Malenkov was very happy. Everyone knew that Beria's real power was astonishing.

The exchange of views was that Beria supported Malenkov to become chairman of the Council of Ministers, and Beria became deputy chairman and minister of the interior, which meant that Malenkov got the government department and Beria got the ministry of internal affairs.

At the same time, Malenkov wanted to agree that Beria would re-merge the split Ministry of Internal Affairs and restore it to a comprehensive department during the war. After discussion, the two had reached a consensus.

In the Kremlin, there are now at least four people with different opinions coveting the leadership, namely Beria himself, Malenkov, Molotov and Khrushchev. After Beria and Malenkov communicate, they will have an overwhelming advantage over the other two.

The threat here mainly comes from Beria, not Malenkov. At this point, the overall situation has been decided.

An emergency meeting was then held in the Kremlin, chaired by Malenkov. He told everyone that Stalin was critically ill. At the meeting, Beria supported Malenkov. Beria proposed that Malenkov should succeed Stalin and that the future Soviet Union would be led by a collective.

Beria's proposal was accepted by everyone. One day later, news came from Koncevo Villa that Stalin had died of illness. After everyone discussed it, they decided to announce the news to the outside world the next day.

On March 6, the news that shocked the whole world was learned by the whole world through the report of Pravda.

Pravda's report was very brief, "Stalin, the leader of the international communist movement and the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died in his villa in Kuntsevo on the outskirts of Moscow at the age of seventy-four."

The news was announced by Soviet radio stations and the main newspaper Pravda. After that, the Soviet Union announced eight days of silence across the country, stopped work, and scheduled Stalin's burial on March 9. Stalin's body was first placed in the Kremlin, and then rested in the Column Hall of the Trade Union Building for people to pay their respects. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union also decided to bury Stalin's body next to Lenin's tomb in Red Square after the viewing. Soviet leaders formed a funeral committee to commemorate and bury Stalin.

This news, at this time, almost had the effect of a Tsarist nuclear bomb explosion. Spread throughout London, Paris and Washington, the assessment of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death and who the future leader of the Soviet Union will be has become the most concerning issue at present.

Alan Wilson arrived at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building with a heavy heart. Logically speaking, he should not be shocked by the death of any historical figure, but after the news came, he was still stunned.

Arriving at the Foreign Office, Sir Ismay first explained that the Labor cabinet was discussing whether to send a delegation to attend Stalin's funeral. As for Whitehall's current responsibility, it is to make a professional assessment of the Soviet Union in the post-Stalin era.

"Is the government going to visit the Soviet Union at this time?" Alan Wilson shouldn't be surprised, but he was still surprised. It shouldn't be surprising because Stalin should have had this kind of influence.

What’s surprising is that the British Empire is still a world empire. Even if the Labor Party is indeed not as hostile to the Soviet Union as the Conservative Party, can it just go to the Soviet Union to attend Stalin’s funeral?

This is still debatable, but this is a matter for the government and Alan Wilson can only give advice.

"We only have suggestions for the government's actions, and it ultimately depends on the Prime Minister's decision. Now we are discussing the Soviet Union in the post-Stalin era, and we have to give an explanation to the cabinet." Sir Ismay quickly issued the required documents and opened the This meeting.

In this regard, Alan Wilson is not targeting anyone, just look for himself. Although his suggestions are unreliable, they are still more reliable than the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' fumbling around blindly. His opinion was that the new leadership of the Soviet Union, no matter who it was, would adopt a strategy of relaxation in the short term.

The fundamental reason is that based on the current intelligence analysis, Stalin did not arrange a successor. There are still many candidates for the current top leadership of the Soviet Union. Precisely because there are so many candidates, the new leader must not have the authority of Stalin.

When the new leader has no authority, it can be judged that everything needs to be discussed, and his external performance will definitely not be as tough as Stalin.

"The Soviet Union's Minister of Interior and Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Beria, was an agent. If he were to lead the Soviet Union, would it be more difficult to deal with than during Stalin's time?" Sir Ismay asked rhetorically.

"It's hard for me to imagine that a person can be more difficult to deal with than Stalin!" Alan Wilson opened his mouth and didn't know what to say. "If a leader like Stalin comes out so easily? The Soviet Union should be leading the world now!"

After saying this, objections arose in the conference room. Even Sir Ismay frowned slightly, "Alan, do you think your evaluation of Stalin is too high?"

"Now it is a country of the Slavs. From the beginning of Kievan Rus to the present, there is no one that has the highest status in the world. Peter the Great did not do it, and Catherine the Great did not do it. Stalin did it. "Alan Wilson shrugged and said, "My evaluation is completely based on my heart, without any personal bias. But fortunately, what we are discussing now is what happened after he died of illness."

After stating that my hands were clean and my conscience clear, the evaluation meeting on how the new Soviet leader would handle international relations continued. Alan Wilson still insisted that the Soviet Union would definitely ease in the short term, and perhaps the ongoing Berlin crisis would end.

In fact, there is no need. The urban area of ​​West Berlin is now like an empty city. It is no longer a window for the two camps to show their superiority, but has simply become a military stronghold for the British, American and French armies.

Even Eisenhower, who said before the campaign that he would give the Soviet Union a tough stance, did not mention it after he came to power.

The first thing that several big figures in the current Soviet Union do after coming to power is to consolidate their positions. It takes a while to build authority, which is predictable.

As for Beria, whose colleagues at the Foreign Ministry have doubts, Alan Wilson said he would not escape this law.

In fact, Alan Wilson knew in his heart that compromising too much to the free world was the crime for which Beria was purged. Regarding the issue of Germany, one thing about Beria was that the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union withdrew from Germany and allowed Germany to unify and become a neutral country.

Not to mention that other high-level Soviet officials did not agree with this proposal. The Soviets agreed with it, and neither Britain, France nor the United States would agree with it.

After two hours of discussion, Alan Wilson insisted that the Soviet Union needed time to stabilize its political environment and would not take a tough stance against the free world. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs produced an assessment report and handed it to the Cabinet Office for delivery to the Cabinet.

At this time, the cabinet, prime minister and ministers are indeed discussing whether to take this opportunity to visit Moscow. At the same time, it was also to test the attitude of the new leadership of the Soviet Union.

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